(0:38) The Train Station Where Alex Sees Kate And Gets The Book She Left Behind / 90 Bloomingbank Road, Riverside

(0:41) The Fancy Restaurant With The Skaters Next Door / The Park Grill; 11 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago (Note: The Skating Takes Place In Millennium Park Just West Of The Restaurant. This Is The Same Place The First Scheduled 2006 Meeting Was To Take Place)

(0:59) Kate And Alex Sitting On Benches At Different Times With A Red Barn Behind Them / Lincoln Park Zoo; 2001 N. Clark Street, Chicago (Note: This Part Of The Zoo Is On The Far South Side Which Is Called The Farm-In-The-Zoo)

(1:20) Alex Gives Morgan Jack The Dog And The Keys To The Lake House / East Avenue At Forest Avenue, Riverside

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It is indeed the Santa Fe Building, designed by Frederick P. Dinkelberg of D. H. Burnham & Company and built 1903-1904, 224 South Michigan Avenue at Jackson Boulevard. Daniel Burnham was the owner and maintained his architectural offices there on the 14th floor.

The Chicago Architecture Foundation has its current offices in the Santa Fe Building and maintains a scale model of Chicago in the lobby which is updated annually:http://www.architecture.org/page.aspx?pid=1568

wow...you must had had a ton of fun tracking dow all of these places...you are amazing!!! I wanted to find some of the location as I plan a trip to Chicago and I love this movie and fell in love with the city thanks to the movie! Thank you for your hard work!!!!

Too bad about the lake house being torn down! Though really, it was hardly suited for the climate of Chicago! I lived in a house on a lake about that size, in Massachusetts, and it was so cold and raw in winter, without all that glass!

The building that was used as Morgan's office in downtown Riverside has been torn down. It used to be Henninger Pharmacy, but had been vacant when the scene was shot. The entire building was torn down soon afterwards and a giant condo building stands there now. I was actually there for the filming of all of the scenes in Riverside. I watched the scene being filmed in the above screenshot along with the scene at the train station, the bridge scenes, and the scenes at Kate and Morgan's house.

This is what the building that Morgan's office was in looks like now:http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5297/5432389415_5719c2ae91_o.jpg

Wish I knew about the movie then, so I could have been there to see the scenes being filmed in Riverside, too; live so close in Melrose Park, Il.. Would love to meet Sandra Bullock; she is such a National Treasure!

The building where Morgan's office was (besides what I wrote above) was closer to the intersection of Longcommon Rd and E Burlington St. The intersection of Forest and East is close, but that downtown area of Riverside is weird how they have the streets meeting each other. So Longcommon and Burlington is more accurate.

Used to work on LaSalle Street and would go into Miller's Pub after work in the late 1960s. Then came back to live at State and Scott Street, those houses on State Parkway were my neighbors in 1995. Such great memories, I walked that walking tour for many years.